I recently offended some people, quite unintentionally, with my modest suggestion that perhaps it wasn’t in the best interests of the nation to hand over so much decision-making power to people who […]
Cacophony
We live in sad and stupid times. Our government seeks to outsource all its functions, including those necessarily secret, to people who’d make it a theocracy. Corporations seek nothing less than monopoly […]
Who will do it for you?
Guest Scrogue Aaron Silverstein is a hack of all trades working out of Denver. Trying to make .org changes in the .gov sphere using .net tools, he is an administrator of the […]
The problem with democracy in America…
In my most recent post, one commenter repeatedly insisted that I offer a solution or an alternative for the problems I was pointing to. As I noted there, I never suggested that […]
Democracy: the cleverest tool for oppression in the history of the world
Thomas Jefferson’s legacy is much admired in the US and beyond, and for good reason. Without his contributions it’s hard to imagine how the American system of “democracy” would have evolved. I’ve […]
Pandemic flu vaccine will be rationed – and you may never get vaccinated
An influenza pandemic strikes the United States. Tens of thousands of people have died, hundreds of thousands of people are sick, and the pandemic shows no signs of abating. The first pandemic […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 4
The past three parts of this series discussed national interest electric transmission corridors, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) authority to issue federal construction permits over the objections of state and local […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 3
The last two parts of this series have discussed how and why the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) may declare a “geographic area” as a national interest […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 2
Yesterday I discussed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and how it permits the Department of Energy to declare large swaths of the country as national interest electric transmission corridors (NIETCs) with […]
Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 1
In 2005, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (referred to as the EPAct from here on), the first attempt in recent history by the federal government to address the generation, […]
